David Heading, founder of the Yahoo SoloWarGame group and solo player extraordinaire, has posted an intriguing and insightful article on his blog about the solo wargamer and fairness.

From David:

It seems to me...that solo wargaming can work around the discourse of fairness that pervades our hobby. I’m not arguing that every game should have one side fighting against impossible odds, but that imbalance exists in our games, even in rule systems that claim to create fairness through a points system. In such systems players can spend long hours obtaining the best army under the rules for a fixed number of points. Real life generals, I suspect, have to go with what they get.